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Nov 29, 2024
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PHIL 476 - The Self: Philosophic and Psychoanalytic Explorations (3 units)
Interpretations of the self, as separate authentic, interdependent, performative, etc., by Descartes, Kant, Freud, Rousseau, Emerson, Winnicott, Mahler, Hegel, Chodorow, Judith Butler and others. (General Capstone course.) (Formerly PHIL 460/660; implemented Spring 2004.)
Prerequisite(s): CH 201 or CH 202 or CH 203 ; ENG 102 ; junior or senior standing.
Units of Lecture: 3
General Capstone Course
Student Learning Outcomes (if available):
Upon completion of this course:
1. Students will be able to state a thesis about the self and its relationship to others, and critically analyze evidence and argument for the thesis drawing from the psychoanalytic and philosophical literatures.
2. Students will be able to explain some of the principal concepts associated with different psychological and philosophical accounts of the self.
3. Students will be able to identify different elements in the concept of the self as understood in more than one cultural or intellectual tradition.
4. Students will be able to show how psychoanalytic theory is relevant to a philosophical understanding of the self, and indicate how case studies may have philosophical implications.
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